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What if the quickest way to steady your heart is to change the voices around you and the words that leave your mouth? We start with real life—hikes that humbled our lungs, caves that tested our preparation, and job shifts that revived old anxieties—to show why encouragement and discernment are survival skills, not side quests. From there, we open Scripture and get practical about how to build a life that resists panic, tempers frustration and speaks life when it’s hardest.

Hebrews challenges us to keep meeting and encouraging daily so our hearts do not harden. Ephesians teaches us to let our words build rather than corrode. James confronts the split stream of praise and cursing, pushing us toward a single, clean source. Along the way, we share field-tested ways to reset your mindset: pray before your thoughts wake up, tape verses where your eyes land, treat mistakes like incomplete passes rather than doom, and choose friends who pull you toward wisdom. We talk about finishing what matters, letting go when it can wait, and refusing the temptation to perform anger as courage.

You’ll hear simple, repeatable practices to encourage coworkers, kids and friends: name growth early, celebrate character, interrupt negativity with a blessing, and keep humor clean. We also talk about when to bite your tongue, how to invite God into your headspace, and why iron only sharpens iron when we actually show up. If your week has felt heavy or your words have been running ahead of your heart, this conversation will help you slow down, breathe deep and choose a better sentence.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a lift, and leave a review telling us your go-to verse for encouragement. Your words might be the nudge someone else needs today.

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (01:14):
Counters.
I mean, they are adults, butthey still count that yes.

SPEAKER_00 (01:18):
Oh yeah.
Yep.

SPEAKER_01 (01:22):
Whoa, what was that?
So which are we doing first?
The encouragement.
Discernment?
Encouragement.
Encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 (01:28):
Roger, what do you prefer?
Does it matter?
Either encouragement ordiscernment.

SPEAKER_04 (01:35):
Encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 (01:36):
Encouragement.

SPEAKER_04 (01:37):
We all need encouragement.
Encouragement to get to thediscernment.

SPEAKER_03 (01:40):
Yeah, there you go.
We are, I just hit the button.

SPEAKER_00 (01:42):
They do kind of bounce off each other a little
bit.

SPEAKER_03 (01:44):
They do.
The reason I asked it that way,but the reason I asked Roger is
because he might dip out afterone.

SPEAKER_04 (01:51):
So we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 (01:54):
We'll see.
Okay.

SPEAKER_04 (01:56):
Sitting's not too bad.
It's the getting up andwalking's problem once I've sit
for a while.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02):
Well, he probably shouldn't have been working here
before this then.

SPEAKER_04 (02:05):
Oh, I went to work this morning.

SPEAKER_03 (02:08):
Are you back to work?

SPEAKER_01 (02:11):
No.

SPEAKER_04 (02:12):
I had to work on a one of them wheelie weed eaters.
What an ordeal that was.
Four and a half hours.
Later.
And it's still now it needs anew belt.
Because the belt's too tight.
I'd change, put different motorson it.

(02:32):
Different kind of motors.
Went from Tecumseh to a Honda.
So it was drill some holes, cutsome sheet metal out.
Well, that won't fit.
There's humps are in the way.
Just cut them out.
Cut them out.
It's a good thing it wasaluminum.

(02:53):
Works.

SPEAKER_03 (02:54):
That does it?

SPEAKER_04 (02:55):
Yeah.
Other than the it needs a needsa new belt.
The belt needs to be a littlebit longer because you know
you're supposed to be able torun it and then pull the lever
like on the lawnmower.
And uh the blade runs all thetime.

SPEAKER_03 (03:11):
Oh.

SPEAKER_04 (03:13):
And it scream.

SPEAKER_03 (03:17):
Yeah, best you get another one then.

SPEAKER_04 (03:20):
Well, geez, you gotta tear the whole front end
of the thing apart to get thebelt off.
I thought, well, this will beeasy.
No.

SPEAKER_03 (03:26):
Not.

SPEAKER_04 (03:27):
Nope.

SPEAKER_03 (03:28):
But well, we're all back in a room after how many
weeks.

SPEAKER_00 (03:32):
We are a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_03 (03:33):
Three?
It's it's been three weeks.

SPEAKER_00 (03:35):
Yeah.
I think so.
That ain't been three weeks.

SPEAKER_03 (03:37):
Well, we had two in a row that we were off.

SPEAKER_00 (03:39):
Yeah, for two for sure.
I think it was two.

SPEAKER_03 (03:41):
Okay.
Yeah.
So two.

SPEAKER_00 (03:42):
Yeah.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (03:42):
Yeah.
So this is week three.

SPEAKER_00 (03:44):
Because I yeah.
I went on vacation.

SPEAKER_03 (03:47):
Mm-hmm.
And Beth went too.
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 (03:51):
Oh yeah.
It seems longer than we getstuck in the week.
It does seem longer than twoweeks, I'll tell you that.
It does.
It seemed a lot longer.

SPEAKER_03 (03:58):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (03:59):
And think about it.
We're going into the lastquarter.
We're already, you know, we'reNovember, December.
Six and a half weeks tillThanksgiving.
Yeehaw.
Right there.

SPEAKER_03 (04:10):
Yeah, don't remind me.
I uh signed up for a turkey trotfor Thanksgiving morning.
It's a 5K.

SPEAKER_00 (04:17):
Oh, why would you do that?

SPEAKER_03 (04:19):
Because I'm trying to hold myself accountable.

SPEAKER_00 (04:21):
Is this after you eat?
No, no, no.
It's before.

SPEAKER_03 (04:24):
It's before.
It's in the morning.
My friend always runs it everyyear.
And then my cousin, who's kindof in becoming friends with my
friend, there, she was like,I've been really wanting to run
a 5K.
And I'm like, well, let's allrun the turkey trot together,
you know?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (04:40):
That sounds like some encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah.
So, but I've done couch to 5Kbefore, which is like a program
that you know gets you trainedtrained up for it.
And I started it Monday.
It looks a little different thistime because I've got Cooper.
I'm plugging him around in thewagon behind me.

SPEAKER_00 (04:59):
You're like Rocky.

SPEAKER_03 (05:01):
That's what I felt like.
I'm like, all right, let's go.
Yeah.
And then he's in the backgroundgoing, dun, du.
I'm like, I'll put your song on,buddy.
That's about all you guys missfrom me.

SPEAKER_00 (05:16):
You're curling him above your head.

SPEAKER_03 (05:20):
He was starting to get bored, and I'm like, oh,
hold on.
Let me see if I can find astick.
So I go and get a stick and Ibroke it in half, and then he
just just like used it as drum,like a drum set.
I'm like, oh man.

SPEAKER_00 (05:33):
You gotta start that kid early on something.
Drums or I know keyboards orsomething.

SPEAKER_03 (05:38):
I thought about getting him a drum set, but then
maybe keeping it at my dad's.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (05:44):
But he'll love it.

SPEAKER_03 (05:45):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (05:46):
Oh, your dad'll love you too.

SPEAKER_03 (05:49):
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 (05:49):
I know.

SPEAKER_04 (05:50):
You know where that drum set would be if it was at
my house?
Mm-hmm.
It would be on your front porch.

SPEAKER_03 (05:56):
Well, you know, my dad actually had one like
growing up and then got rid ofit because I came along.
Maybe.
And then they he just recentlybought one.
Or no, he didn't even buy it.
His friend gave it to him.
It was his neighbor.
So he would he'll go over therefor some fires, and each night

(06:16):
he'd come back with just onemore piece.
Then there'd be a next weekend.
He'd come back with anotherpiece.
But I think they're kind ofplaying a game like giving it
back to him, but I can't, Icould be wrong.
I don't remember.
Because he he's not playing onit.
But I I know Cooper was playingon it in like 4th of July, I
think.
And yeah, he was going to townon it.

(06:38):
So Roger.

SPEAKER_04 (06:41):
We'll have that worship band one of these days.

SPEAKER_03 (06:43):
Yep.
Yep.

SPEAKER_04 (06:44):
Let's see how old's Cooper.
What he's 18 months.

SPEAKER_03 (06:46):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (06:48):
Another another 12 and a half years.

SPEAKER_01 (06:50):
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
Well, I've been blessed with thework with your friend this past
year.

SPEAKER_03 (06:56):
That's what she told me.
I went to lunch with her onMonday.
And I was like, well, hold on, Ithink you know Beth.
And she's like, yeah.
She's like, she's actually whatrooming for the following day?
Did you room for a Tuesday?

SPEAKER_01 (07:08):
Tuesday and today.
And today.
Yeah.
The rest of the week.
That better be it.

SPEAKER_04 (07:14):
I see you have scrubs on.

SPEAKER_01 (07:16):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (07:17):
You actually have to work.

SPEAKER_01 (07:18):
I do.
And the worst of it is, is Ifeel like that I'm letting the
doctors down, not doing what I'msupposed to be doing on my job,
but they put that to a completehalt.
So they did?
Yeah, at least for this week.
So I don't know what next week'sgonna bring.
I feel bad because I I basicallydon't know how to do anything.
I've never been trained.
There's not here.
Go.

SPEAKER_03 (07:39):
Okay.

SPEAKER_04 (07:40):
Oh, JT.

SPEAKER_03 (07:44):
Well, how was your trips, Nick?

SPEAKER_00 (07:47):
Excellent.
Yeah.
I should have trained before thetrip.
I'll tell you that.
Some of them hikes, CadillacMountain in Maine, 1,530 feet
straight up.

SPEAKER_03 (07:55):
Oh.

SPEAKER_00 (07:56):
Oh yeah, it was rough.
But we did it.
Margie and I did it.

SPEAKER_03 (07:59):
That's almost like the Manitou Incline, which is in
Colorado.
It's like 2,000 feet, I think,or 1,800 pretty close.

SPEAKER_00 (08:06):
I think it's like two, two and a half hours, I
think, to get up to the top.

SPEAKER_01 (08:09):
I would need oxygen by the time I got to the halfway
mark.

SPEAKER_00 (08:13):
It's like well, it's like the first, I don't know,
first half hour or so.
It's rough.
Like chest is burning, you know,legs are aching.
You just think there's no way,you know, I I can get up this
hill.
But after a while, it you kindof work yourself into it,
everything kind of eases up, andthen you don't feel too bad.

(08:34):
But then going down, back down,it just kills your calves, yeah.
Your shin splints, you know.
It's rough.

SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
What's it called?

SPEAKER_00 (08:42):
Cadillac Mountain.

SPEAKER_03 (08:43):
Cadillac.

SPEAKER_00 (08:44):
Maine.

SPEAKER_03 (08:44):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (08:44):
In the Acadia National Park.
So we did that one.
We did a few other ones, likethe Bubble Rock Trail, Jordan
Pond Trail.
Yeah, they were all pretty.
They were, I mean, they say mostof them are considered moderate,
not too stressful.
It's a lie.
But when you're 45, you know,Seth and his cousin Samuel,

(09:10):
they're just sprinting right upto the top.
You know, they're they totallyget out of sight because they're
not waiting on us.
You blame them?
No, I don't blame them.
Because I'm leaning up against atree at one point.

SPEAKER_04 (09:21):
Do they have do they have do they have oxygen stops
along the way?

SPEAKER_00 (09:25):
I wish.
No.
Nope.
No stop, no, no stops at all.
And that's the thing with theseyoung kids.
They won't even stop to lookaround the scenery for just a
little bit to let you catch abreath.
I was there.
Been there, done that.
Yeah.
Do something else.
But it was fun though, and itwas definitely worth the view
once you got up there.
Yeah.
Top of Cadillac Mountain, if youlook across the North Atlantic

(09:45):
Ocean, you can see Nova Scotiaout there.

SPEAKER_03 (09:48):
Really?
Wow.
That's neat.

SPEAKER_00 (09:50):
It's very tough to see, but you could see land way,
way, way out there.
That's so cool.
Yeah.
I would love to go up there inwintertime.

SPEAKER_03 (09:56):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (09:57):
Now the but the real slap in the face, as you know,
the government shut down.

SPEAKER_03 (10:02):
Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 (10:05):
So we heard you couldn't go up there by vehicle
anymore because the guard shacksweren't working.
You know.
So we'd in order to go up, wedecide to hike it.
So we do the hike, we get to thetop, and there's all these cars
parked at the top.
And a trolley going up the road.
The trolley was even going to.

(10:27):
So it was just like a slap inthe face.
Like, you mean to tell me I justclimbed this for two and a half
hours?

SPEAKER_01 (10:32):
I would have taken that trolley back down though.

SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
No ticket.

SPEAKER_01 (10:37):
Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 (10:37):
No tickie, no laundry.
Yeah.
So yeah, I would love to go backin wintertime, drive up.
Yeah.
And see the view then.
I think that'd be pretty cool.
So maybe someday.

SPEAKER_04 (10:49):
I don't know.
My daughter lived up here forfour years.
She said that they got snowed infor three weeks.
Nice.

SPEAKER_00 (10:55):
I wouldn't mind getting snowed in for a while.
That one bothered me a bit.
No power.
I mean, as long as I had as longas I had the essentials.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (11:04):
No power.
Oh.
Well.
They had no power.
They lived in a s they lived ina split level.
So they put blankets andeverything up, you know, over
and they basically lived in thebot in the split level because
it had a fireplace.
And that's basically the onlyway they stayed warm.
And my wife asked her, Well, howdid you keep your milk warm or

(11:26):
milk cold?
And she says, I just left it seton the kitchen table.
Just set it outside, plunge itin.
Yeah, didn't have to sit itoutside, just set it on the
kitchen table.
It stayed cold.

SPEAKER_03 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (11:39):
But it was, it was, it's pretty up, it is pretty up
here.
It is.
Yeah.
Did you go whale watching?

SPEAKER_00 (11:46):
No.
We decided not to because youhad to reserve it in advance.
Yeah.
And we didn't know what theweather was going to be at the
time.
And we all thought, well, if wereserve it for a cloudy, rainy
day, it's not going to be worthit because you're not going to
see anything.
Now we had picture perfectweather all week.
So we kind of regretted notdoing it, but at the same time,
we would have been on the boatlike six hours.

(12:06):
Yeah.
And you're still not guaranteedto see a whale.
So yeah, we decided against itand didn't see no whale, no
moose.
I think all we saw was aporcupine.
Squirrels.
Squirrel.

SPEAKER_02 (12:20):
Squirrel.

SPEAKER_00 (12:21):
Yeah, nothing.
Didn't see no bears.
No bears.
You know, so nothing exciting.
We all wanted to see a moose.
You didn't see a moose.
Wasn't it wasn't in the cards.
We saw a bear when we was out inWashington.

SPEAKER_04 (12:33):
In the mountains.

SPEAKER_02 (12:34):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (12:35):
Because it was it was kind of funny because my my
son says, She's he says, Boy,it'd really be funny if we'd see
a bear.
And his mother says, Well, lookright over there.
Right there's a bear.

SPEAKER_00 (12:48):
So Beth, where'd you go?

SPEAKER_01 (12:50):
I went to Florida.
Went and visited my son.
Soaked up some sunshine, sataround the pool in what part of
Florida?
There in Tampa.

SPEAKER_00 (13:00):
I've been no further south than Jacksonville.

SPEAKER_01 (13:04):
We went to uh clear water over to the ocean one
evening and watched the sunriseor sunset.
It was beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 (13:11):
Oh, that was the other thing about that hike to
Cadillac Mountain.
We started up not late, late,but 3 34.
So we caught most of the sunset.
But thank goodness we had the uhflashlights on ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 (13:24):
That's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 (13:25):
Because it got dark.
You know?
And there was no way we couldhave climbed down the cave in
the dark.
Because you know you're climbingover rocks and boulders,
tripping over stuff.

SPEAKER_04 (13:34):
I got a story for you.
We went caving in uh Washingtonwhen I was up here visiting my
son.
He says, let's go to this cave.
Okay, well, we go to this cave.
It was close to Mount St.
Helens.
So we go in this cave, you know,and it's all lit up.
It's pretty cool, you know.
Well, they had another part.

(13:56):
So we said, okay, well, we'll goto that.
We'll we'll we'll go and go upthe mountain and then we'll come
in.
We start down.
I mean, there's like a hole inthe ground with a ladder.
So we start go down.
We get down here.
Okay, well, it's not too bad.
And it starts getting dark.

(14:18):
You know, the boulders and stuffthat's kind of hanging over.
Oh, ow.
I said, we need to go out theway we came in.
My daughter's mydaughter-in-law's phone went
dead, so we have no light.
I told him, I said, the nexttime you want to go caving, we

(14:39):
are going to the store first.
We are buying batteries, we'rebuying headlights, and we are
buying flashlights.
I mean, you know, like you said,just stumbling around on the
rocks, and I mean it was, Imean, it was kind of it was kind
of funny in a way, but it wasstupid in a way.
Yeah.
Because, you know, we could havereally got hurt.

(14:59):
You know, you could have broke aleg in there or knocked yourself
out.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (15:04):
I thought you were going to tell me like bats came
out or something.

SPEAKER_04 (15:07):
Well, they may have been in there.

SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
That'd been it for me.

SPEAKER_04 (15:13):
But it was still daylight outside, so they, you
know, they could still see thelight in it.
There was still light in thetunnel.

SPEAKER_00 (15:22):
But yeah, that was.
Yeah, sometimes you do thingsand you don't really think about
time.

SPEAKER_04 (15:26):
Yeah, that yeah, that was that was don't think
that far ahead.
And the worst part was you youcould have you you could have
got there through the tunnelsthat we were in that were lit.
But but then I guess you know,the light runs out, so I don't
know.

SPEAKER_03 (15:43):
But then you wouldn't have had the story to
tell.
That's true.

SPEAKER_04 (15:46):
That really felt stupid.
But it was it was it was fun.
Well, the best part was walkingup there because you was walking
also that volcanic ash.

SPEAKER_03 (15:57):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (15:57):
It was like six inches thick, you know.
Every time you'd step, it'd kindof like soot.
Yeah.
Only it was it was white.
It wasn't black, it was white.
It was pretty neat.

SPEAKER_02 (16:10):
Huh.

SPEAKER_04 (16:12):
That's another one of Roger's dumb stories.

SPEAKER_03 (16:18):
No.
Well, I can start us out with aBible verse.
Oh.
Oh.

SPEAKER_04 (16:24):
Do we do we have to do we do that?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 (16:29):
All right.
I'm gonna go into Hebrews.

SPEAKER_04 (16:32):
You don't have it memorized?

unknown (16:34):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (16:35):
Okay, this one is actually I like that because I
don't have Hebrews out of allthe yeah.
So it's good.
And he's got three and a halfpages.
I do.
So let's go.

SPEAKER_03 (16:43):
Hebrews 10 25, which is kind of almost piggybacking
off of like the last few weeks,almost how we were saying like
that we would kind of we don'twant to call it a routine, but
sometimes we would get into aroutine and a rut, and you know,
just going about our day.
And but this right here isHebrews 10 25.

(17:04):
Let us not give up meetingtogether as some are in the
habit of doing, but let usencourage one another, and all
the more as you see the dayapproaching.
I thought that had something todo with a habit.
Oh my goodness.
Well, I also had Hebrews three,Hebrews three, twelve, and

(17:30):
thirteen, which is three,twelve.
Okay.
May the Lord make your loveincrease and overflow for each
other and for everyone else,just as ours does for you.
Oh no, I'm sorry, that's firstThessalonians.
I'm all over the place, guys.
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (17:46):
Sounded good.

SPEAKER_03 (17:47):
It did sound good.
Three, what would I say?
Twelve and thirteen.

SPEAKER_00 (17:53):
Three twelve and thirteen.

SPEAKER_03 (17:55):
Hebrews chapter three, twelve and thirteen.
Okay, see to it, brothers, thatnone of you have a sinful,
unbelieving heart that turnsaway from the living God, but
encourage one another daily, aslong as it is called today, so
that none of you may be hardenedby sin's deceitfulness.

SPEAKER_00 (18:23):
And what is your what is your take from this?
Yes.

SPEAKER_03 (18:28):
That we need to encourage each other and lift
each other up and especiallyThat's why we should should
fellowship.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
I think staying in good companyis probably a good part of
encouragement.

SPEAKER_00 (18:43):
Is just you have to be around the right people.
Yes.
To to get to get the type ofencouragement that you need.
That was actually a lot ofpeople can encourage you to do a
lot of different things.

SPEAKER_03 (18:53):
Yeah.
That was actually one of mybullet points for discernment
was like how do you discernthings?
And it was saying be around Isthis an Easter egg?
No.

unknown (19:05):
Okay.

SPEAKER_03 (19:06):
No, just being around the the right group of
people and the Christians andeverything.

SPEAKER_00 (19:10):
Well, it was looking at me like an Easter egg?
What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 (19:12):
It could possibly be.
Maybe this should just be oneepisode.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think they're gonna go hand inhand a lot, though.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (19:24):
What squirrel and he shrinks?

SPEAKER_03 (19:29):
If you want them to.

SPEAKER_00 (19:33):
Yeah.
Good company.
Uh because what I take from thatis, as I said, you know, it's so
important that if you find goodpeople, if you find people to
fellowship with, that you makethe time to be with those
people.
You know, that you don't youdon't waste your energy and your

(19:55):
time on people that arenegative, that are not living in
God's word, that are gonna, as Isaid, encourage you to do other
things than you know what God isseeking you to do.
Uh so that so yeah, fellowship,good company, all those things,
encouragement, you know, unlessyou yes, you can be encouraged

(20:20):
by the word alone.
But I think having good companyis is very important to that.
You know, you want to be youwant to be able to share God's
word with other people.
Yeah.
It really, I think, helps youstay involved and keep you in
the word.
Because the more that otherpeople build you up and you feel
that that encouragement is, youknow, I I think that's just

(20:41):
that's a huge helper.

SPEAKER_01 (20:42):
Well, I think also when you build up that
relationship with otherChristians and you build that
friendship and bond, that whenyou're having bad days or you're
having weakness, you know, theyusually can tell without ever
you expressing and they'relifting you up and encouraging
you.

SPEAKER_00 (21:01):
Right.
Yeah, in the workplace is one ofthose things where, you know, if
you're around the if you'refrustrated and you're around the
wrong person, then you'd belike, Well, I think you need to
go up in the office and tellthem exactly where to stick it.
And it's like, that's not goodencouragement.
That's encouragement.
Certainly.

(21:22):
Yeah.
It's not, it's not what youshould be doing, it's not what
God would have you do.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (21:26):
That's just like the situation with my job.
You know, I'm not happy withwhat I'm presently doing, but I
also realize that we're in acrunch and I have to be a team
player.
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (21:36):
Yep.

SPEAKER_01 (21:37):
One of the girls said to me, Well, I was shocked
to see you come back.
I'm like, really?
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Yeah.
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (21:45):
Yeah, it's so important for people, again,
that you know, that arecompeting, that you know, that
have a job to do.
I think it's very important athome to really try to encourage
each other, to try to staypositive, even when things are
not going well, even whencertain things arise, you know,
unforeseen circumstance thatwill set you back.

(22:09):
It's very important that you tryto encourage each other instead
of trying to make each otherhopeless, you know, and looking
at all the negative things thatcould come out of the situation.
You want to be around peoplethat will encourage you, stay
positive, yeah, you know, seethrough the problem.
Yeah.
And that's just, you know,that's very important.
And and I think with goodfellowship with Christians, you

(22:30):
get a lot more of that asopposed to, hey, go up there and
you know, tell them to stick it.
I mean, you know, we we had aguy that just quit his job just
on a whim.
I mean, he's got a wife and akid, and but he got so
frustrated.
And this was when I was onvacation, and I worked quite

(22:51):
closely with him.
And I think a lot of it wasjust, yeah, you you get this
mindset that well, I'm gonnashow them, I'll just quit.
Well, okay, that might hurt themfor a little while.

SPEAKER_03 (23:06):
Yeah, but not forever.

SPEAKER_00 (23:07):
But hurts you.
The reality of it is anycompany, they're gonna move on.

SPEAKER_03 (23:11):
Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 (23:12):
Life goes on.
But now if you're standing therewith no job and a wife and a
kid, and then it's it's not easyto find another job.
It's easy to lose it, yeah, togive it up.
But it's not so easy to findanother one, especially if if
you've been in a good position.
You know, you were you weremaking decent money, you worked
your way up.
And now, you know, you mighthave to start at the bottom

(23:33):
again.
So again, it could be becausepeople's gonna question your
integrity if you were justwilling to walk off the look at
that and be like, hmm, what'swhat's underneath here?
You know, why is this person soapt to just follow his temper
and in instead of hisdiscernment?

SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
She walked in at 7 30, packed her desk, and out the
door she went.

SPEAKER_00 (23:57):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it probably and it may havefelt good at the time.
At the time for a little while,but then once everything sinks
in, you're like, oh, yeah, whydid I do that?
I think it was like GeorgeCostans in Seinfeld the one
time.
He quit his job and then hepretended like I'll just go
back.
Yeah, well like I never quit.
And he walks in and he sits downat the table as we're all kind

(24:19):
of talking, and all of a suddenthe bosses look at him like,
didn't you quit?
He's like, What?
What are you talking about?
He goes, Yeah, you told me I wasthis, told me I was that.
And he's like, What?
You took that seriously?
I was just joking.
That was just a joke.
And he's like, uh-uh.
Out of here.

unknown (24:36):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (24:36):
It's almost like the oh my goodness.
I can't even think of the TVshow.
But he he's like the UPS driver.
What is it?
Oh my gosh, it's not UPS.

SPEAKER_00 (24:50):
It's uh What King of Queens?
Yes.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (24:52):
And when he gets that job, it's because Carrie's
following him to like his newjob, and he just walks and he's
like, I gotta act like I'mworking here.
And then all of a sudden he getsa job there.
Yeah.
But that was from herencouraging him to have an
actual job.
A big boy job.

SPEAKER_04 (25:13):
A big boy job.
Yeah.
I'm sure my wife don't do thatwith me.
Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 (25:21):
I I'm thankful for the my friends that do encourage
me because I think sometimes Iwouldn't always make the right
choice.
Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (25:30):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (25:31):
Well, I even like it happened today.
Like I can tell you I was at themall with Ashley Caldwell.
We ran into each other and wewere leaving.
Oh, Ashley Johnson and JJ.
And we were getting ready toleave and we were talking, and
we were in front of like ahandicapped parking lot or
parking spot, but the personright beside them was more than

(25:53):
halfway over.
So I'm like, well, no one'sgonna try to park here, you
know?
So this lady all of a suddencomes up, and I thought she was
just waiting for this other carto leave.
And then she didn't even beepher horn or anything.
It was probably minute, minuteand a half.
Then she finally yells, Are youtwo gonna move or what?
And we both looked at eachother.

(26:14):
I'm like, Oh, Jesus, spreadJesus, just spread Jesus,
Ashley.
Just and she's like, I'm gladyou said that because I almost
didn't, I almost spread thedevil.
I'm like, I know me too.
I said, but me standing therewith you, it was like right away
I knew like this is my friendand God, you know, like it just
prompted me, like, hey, we'renot to act that way, you know.

(26:35):
But yeah, I'm like, oh, bitingmy tongue, walking, like, oh you
have a good day.
So yes Roger, what are youlooking at?
What are you looking at?

SPEAKER_04 (26:51):
I don't know.
I'm just looking.

SPEAKER_00 (26:52):
You got something highlighted there.

SPEAKER_04 (26:54):
Oh, is it prayer and con prayer prayer and
confessions?

SPEAKER_00 (27:00):
Does it have anything to do with what we're
talking about?

SPEAKER_01 (27:03):
Encouragement.

SPEAKER_04 (27:05):
Well, yeah, prayer's encouragement.

SPEAKER_01 (27:08):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (27:14):
I just keep going back to the discernment too,
because I'm like, yeah, also youcan get discernment on your
brain.

SPEAKER_04 (27:23):
Get guidance.
I need a lot of guidancesometimes.

SPEAKER_03 (27:28):
Me too.
Man, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (27:33):
Guidance and forgiveness.

SPEAKER_03 (27:35):
Yes.

SPEAKER_04 (27:36):
Kind of rhyme, don't I?
They go together.

SPEAKER_03 (27:41):
They do go together when you say them together.

SPEAKER_01 (27:48):
Well, I suffer with a lot of anxiety over change and
new things.
I don't I don't do well with it.
And uh I it's been rough makingthis a little bit of a
transition.
And so by you know, having todig in a little bit on words
that are encouragement and it'sbrought you.
It's helped me.

SPEAKER_03 (28:11):
Yeah, I I agree.

SPEAKER_04 (28:13):
Oh whenever whenever whenever you've did a job for so
many years and then you get outof that job and then you get
thrown back into it, it's likeyou're like you're starting all
over.

(28:34):
You know, because everythingthat you actually have learnt
and was taught is old school.
Now we got all this new newmedicine, new machines, yeah,
everything is new.
And it's I know when my when mydaughter first came back from uh

(29:00):
where were they at?
Maine, Texas, I don't know,someplace.
And uh she got a job atBarberton.
And she said, I can't believeit.
They're still charting on paper.
They're you know, the the thatthat's that's the way she that's
the way she learned.

(29:21):
But then, you know, when I don'tknow, I don't know how they do
it now.
I mean, on a computer or tabletor whatever, you know.
Then she got used to that.
Yeah.
Then she had to go back to theold way, you know, and it was
she said it was a big change.

SPEAKER_03 (29:37):
That's kind of that's like we do paper charts
and like going from the dentaloffice that I started at, I
don't know, six years ago, likethey were very like very
advanced and very and then I'mlike but it is like taking a
step back because it was how Ilearned, like you said.

SPEAKER_04 (29:55):
So yeah, it's and then then there's a change.

SPEAKER_03 (29:59):
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 (30:00):
And you and that you don't like change.
I mean, and that I don't likechange either.
I mean But then some sometsometimes change is good.

SPEAKER_03 (30:09):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (30:11):
Sometimes change is still good, but you don't think
it is until you've did it for awhile.

SPEAKER_01 (30:18):
Well, I you know, I've been a nurse for 35 years.
And the last 15 years of my lifeor more, I've been a paper
nurse.
Yeah.
I audit charts, I do patienteducation, you know, I prepare
things for the physicians.
So to go back and on theclinical side.
On the clinical side, hands-on.

(30:39):
Hands-on, it's I mean, I canstill go in and get a blood
pressure, I can still do atreatment, I can do that, but
where do I document?
Where do I find this?
How do I do this?
I'm lost.
And I'm always hunting forsomebody.
Hey, can you come help me?

SPEAKER_04 (30:54):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (30:54):
But they've been very kind and very helpful.

SPEAKER_04 (30:57):
Well, I mean, you know, ninety percent of those
people have been in thatsituation themselves.
You know, they're they may maybethey've came from someplace that
does it completely different.
You know, so they had to learn,they had somebody had to show
them.

SPEAKER_01 (31:12):
And I'm computer stupid.
That's Pastor Michael, down yougo.
So I knew how to do on thecomputer to do my job.
Now I'm doing some somebodyelse's something totally
different.
You know.

SPEAKER_04 (31:23):
Well, that's that's like that's like after uh well I
don't know, well we'll say thelast year of my job, you know, I
still worked out in the shop,but then he wanted me to do I I
had to do spreadsheets.
I never did a spreadsheet in mylife.
You know.
And you know, you then price itand put put it.

(31:44):
I mean, it's it's a it's aprocess.
Yeah.
You know.
I mean, it took me a long time,especially when you, you know,
you got one finger typing, orsometimes two.
I was getting really good attwo.

SPEAKER_03 (31:55):
Well, don't feel bad because when my dad took over
like to be the plant manager,same thing.
He's like, I've never workedwith an Excel spreadsheet.
Like he was like, he was gettingon Amazon, I need all these
vitamins for my brain health.
I'm like, oh dad, like good forhim, you know.
But it he was like hypinghimself up, just freaking
himself out.

SPEAKER_04 (32:15):
But I mean, you know, and then and then you
know, moving stuff around andchanging this, and then you when
you make your spreadsheet, youdidn't make it big enough
because you have to addsomething.
So you know, you got to figureout how to do that.

SPEAKER_01 (32:28):
And all of a sudden you shrunk this cell and you
don't know how you shrunk thatcell and you gotta figure out
how to make it bigger.

SPEAKER_04 (32:32):
Oh no.
I just I I put I put a piece oftape over the delete button.
That was that was a do nottouch.
But you know, once you once youdo it for a while, you know, you
kind of figure it out.

SPEAKER_02 (32:48):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (32:48):
I mean, I had a lot of questions for the secretary,
believe me.
I said, I wanna do this.
She said, Well, move.
I says, I need to do it myselfso I know how to do it.

SPEAKER_01 (32:57):
And see, that's what the younger generation, they've
done this all most of theirlives.
So it's nothing for them.

SPEAKER_04 (33:04):
It's easy.
And it's it's it's easy it'seasy.

SPEAKER_01 (33:07):
It's easy for them to jump in and just I'm like,
no, no, no, no.
I gotta I have to do that, oryeah, wait a minute, I gotta
write step one, step two, stepthree.

SPEAKER_00 (33:15):
Yeah, I'm definitely a type of has to do something
countless times before.

SPEAKER_03 (33:19):
Me too.
I can't just do it once ortwice.
Like, even if someone sayshonestly, probably when learning
a job, like, well, didn't wealready do this once?
Yeah, I need to do it ten times.
I can't just do it once,especially when you want me to
do a thousand other things.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (33:36):
Yeah, it's like yeah, yeah, like like doing
that, you know, you know,actually be out in the shop and
doing stuff.
I had to clean up, so I could goin the office, so I didn't get
the computer dirty.

SPEAKER_03 (33:50):
Yep.

SPEAKER_04 (33:51):
You know, and then then I had taken call call for
prices, you know, call thisplace, call that place, call
this place, look this up in thebook, go to another book and
look that up, get a price, getthe best price there is.
Ay, ay, aye.
I mean, you know, I'm 75 yearsold, I don't need to know all
that crap.
You know.

SPEAKER_01 (34:12):
So when I was thinking about encouragement, I
was not just only thinking aboutencouragement in each other, but
the word that is encouraging.
So I have Philippians 4 13.
I can do all things throughChrist who strengthens me.

SPEAKER_03 (34:24):
Yep.

SPEAKER_01 (34:26):
And I have Deuteronomy 24, because the Lord
your God is going with you tofight your enemies for you and
to save you.
That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 (34:36):
My approach to anxiety is always this.
Like if something goes wrong oror you make a mistake, you gotta
look at it as it's just anincomplete pass.
It's not a fumble.
Yep.
It's not a penalty.

SPEAKER_03 (34:53):
Yeah, you tried.

SPEAKER_00 (34:54):
You didn't throw a tantrum on the field and get
yourself ejected from the game.
It was just an incomplete pass.
Yeah.
But you're still moving down thefield.
Yeah.
Johnny Unitis, who was a Hall ofFame quarterback for the
Baltimore Colts, so his approachalways was he had this sense of
amnesia when he played.
If he made a bad pass, he didn'tfret about it.

(35:14):
He didn't settle on it and keepthinking about he'd he'd say, I
just forget it, completely putit behind me and look at the
next play.
And that's how he was sosuccessful because he never went
back, let's say he never wentback to the bench after four
downs if you know they theydidn't go downfield and score a
touchdown.
He didn't dwell on it.
Right.
He's just like, Oh, okay, thatseries is over, and it's just an

(35:38):
incomplete pass, but we're stillgonna move downfield.
By the end of the game, we'regonna win this thing.
So you can never, you know, youcan't expect always to be a
hundred percent perfect.

SPEAKER_01 (35:48):
This is the thing.
Everything that I worry aboutand increase my anxiety.
Yeah, never mind.
Right.
No, it's not good.
I didn't make that mistake.
I didn't do this, I didn't dothat.
It's just stuff that I allowSatan to get in my head.
Yeah.

unknown (35:59):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (35:59):
Because he knows that that's something that I
check, double check, triplecheck.
I'm just that's the way I wastrained when I was a good thing.
And that's but that's that'swhat I do.

SPEAKER_00 (36:07):
But to me, that's not so much anxiety, that's just
that's just a good work ethic.
That's a great approach to howyou do things.
But the anxiety part is, yeah,if for whatever reason you
forgot to put this on the chartor it's not the end of the
world.

SPEAKER_01 (36:20):
Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00 (36:21):
You know, it's just an incomplete pass.
You're gonna continue to moveforward in your job.
You're still great at your job.
It doesn't set you or anybodyelse back.
But it can if you let thatanxiety build and build and
build to where now guess what?
Now you're making more mistakesbecause you're still dwelling on
what happened two hours ago.

SPEAKER_01 (36:39):
Before I get up in the morning this week, I have
said, Lord, get in my headbefore I do.
Yeah, get in my head.
And that's the thing I do.

SPEAKER_00 (36:46):
You know, yeah, you got you gotta have that frame of
mind when you start, thatpositive encouragement that,
yeah, it's I'm gonna do the bestI can.
It's gonna be a good day.
God, you're in control of it.
Yep.
And that's how I'm gonnaapproach my day.
And and if everything doesn't goquite how I thought it was going
to, you know, we're gonna we'regonna adapt and overcome.

SPEAKER_01 (37:05):
Well, and that's funny because yeah, I if I have
to be there till seven o'clock,I'm there at seven o'clock
because I have to do I want mystuff done.
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (37:13):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (37:14):
So they're like, it's five o'clock, it's time to
go home.
What isn't done we can deal withtomorrow.

unknown (37:20):
Okay.
Like, fine.

SPEAKER_00 (37:22):
Sometimes you gotta encourage yourself to say, I
need to get this done before Igo.
Yeah.
And sometimes you have toencourage yourself to work just
a little longer, a little harderto meet the goal, other than
saying, time to go.
Yeah, I'll leave it for tomorrowand leave put yourself in a bed.

SPEAKER_01 (37:37):
No, it matters, and that's not right, you know,
that's one that's not me.
And I don't think it's hereither.
She's she's not real busy yet.
So once she's busy, there's notgoing to be leaving anything.

SPEAKER_03 (37:49):
That's what I was thinking too, because that's
that's my logic.
Like, man, it'd be so nice tokeep this for the next time I
work.
But I mean, as soon as nineo'clock hits, that phone is
ringing.
I'm the only one up there.
I'm trying, you know, I'mchecking patients out every 15
minutes.
I'm like, ah, like there's notime.
And then it just starts buildingup, and you're like, oh great.
But you said something aboutdwelling, and I think we need to

(38:11):
dwell on the word rather thanlike there's a the problem.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And the oh, I don't know if it'sstill a service or not.
I'm sure it is.
It's like a subscription box.
I don't know, it's like$11.99.
It was a few years back, but itgives you a verse to memorize
each month, and then it givesyou like these temporary tattoos

(38:34):
that I might have talked aboutthem one time.
Like say, for God so loved theworld, like that, you know, in
John 3.16, it would say John3.16, but then it would have an
F as for because and then G forGod.
It's just the way your brain, Idon't know, it's like a a fast
way to memorize scripture, Iguess.

(38:54):
But came with that, and likemaybe an index card with the
temporary tattoo design.
And I've seen people do that,and then they'll actually like
get that actual tattoo as atattoo, you know, and but I it's
neat, it's just like a differentway to actually dive into the
word.
I think it might have been onone of the Christian podcasts

(39:14):
that I was listening to, like aadvertisement or something.
But yeah, that's what it remindsme of.

SPEAKER_01 (39:19):
I do um I have some taped to when I'm in my office,
I have a I don't have a laptop,I have a regular computer.
Yeah.
So my screen, I have Bibleverses taped on it.
It's a good idea all the wayaround.
And then I have a couple that'staped to my mirror in the
bathroom.
So when I'm brushing my teeth inthe morning, I'm running those
through my head.
Yeah, that's a good idea.

unknown (39:39):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (39:40):
Just yeah, it encourages you.

SPEAKER_00 (39:43):
Well, I've been thinking about lately, and I I
can't quite get the verse right,but it's, you know, seek me,
follow me, and I will give yourest.
Sometimes when things aregetting so overwhelming, you're
like, wow, if I could just if Icould just relax for a little
bit.
If I could just, you know, butusually there's no time to do
that.
So a lot of times I'm justthinking about that.
Like, okay, even if, even if I'mstill moving, even if I get home

(40:08):
and I can't sit down, somehowGod's still gonna give me rest
through all that.

SPEAKER_01 (40:13):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (40:14):
He's still gonna provide me with what I need.
Keep going.

SPEAKER_01 (40:18):
Yep.
And that's where I was lastnight when I had myself so
worked up and finally I'm justlike rolled over in bed, and I'm
like, okay, God, we gotta yougotta calm me down here.
And then I just started praying,I'm praying for myself, praying
for this person, that person,and before I knew it, I was all
snuggly and warm and was atpeace.

(40:38):
Yeah.
One, he helped me get my eyesfocused on everybody else's
problems instead of my what Ithought was my own.

SPEAKER_03 (40:45):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (40:48):
He was just showing me random people that I needed
to pray for.

SPEAKER_00 (40:51):
And maybe sometimes that's the best way out of it is
you know, when you start helpingother people, then it maybe
makes you realize your problemsaren't so big.

SPEAKER_01 (40:59):
Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (41:00):
And you're not the only one with the problem.

SPEAKER_01 (41:02):
Yep.
I still my husband, he has thebest word for problems.
He said if money can fix it,it's not really a problem.

SPEAKER_00 (41:10):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (41:11):
And it's that's so, so true.
Yep.
Yep.
Even if you don't have themoney, if it's fixable with
money, yes, exactly.
It's not a problem.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (41:20):
Yeah.
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (41:22):
Yes.
Well, we're 44 minutes into thisone.
All right.

SPEAKER_00 (41:28):
Well, but we had some banner at the So the only
thing I want to tackle aboutthis was you know, there's
there's always this idea outthere.
I I'm just a big believer thatwhat comes out of your mouth has
a lot to do with what's in yourheart.
What's in your heart and what'sgoing on in your mind.

SPEAKER_03 (41:46):
Yes.
Oh, I agree.
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (41:48):
So I think the more neg negative that you speak, and
I will say this even forcursing, profanity, the more you
speak such negative things, theless encouragement you're gonna
have.

SPEAKER_03 (42:06):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (42:06):
Oh, it's impossible to stay encouraged when
everything that's coming out ofyour mouth is negative.
Yeah.
You know, and a lot of peopleare like, you gotta get it out,
you gotta get it out.
Well, I'm not gonna argue withthat.

SPEAKER_03 (42:23):
But you don't have to get it out 24-7.

SPEAKER_00 (42:25):
No.
I think we have to be verycareful about what we say, how
we say things, especially toother people and to ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 (42:35):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (42:36):
In order to have that healthy mind and body.
And Proverbs 420 says, My son,pay attention to what I say,
listen closely to my words, donot let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart, forthey are life to those who find
them, and health to a man'swhole body.
Exactly.
Above all else, guard yourheart, for it is the wellspring

(42:58):
of life.
Put away perversity from yourmouth, keep corrupt talk from
your lips, let your eyes lookstraight ahead, fix your gaze
directly before you, make levelpaths for your feet, and take
only ways that are firm.
Do not swerve to the right or tothe left, keep your foot from
evil.
So it's expressing that ideathat you know even if you're

(43:22):
thinking it, you know, you youneed to try and have this keep
keep those negative things fromspurting out.
Yeah.
Because I think they just I justit's kind of like I guess it's
kind of like a water fountain.
Like once they spew out of yourmouth, guess what?
They fall right back down onyou.
They don't go out.
They don't think they go outsometimes because they just come
right back down on you.

SPEAKER_03 (43:43):
Well, and on to you and on to other people, and
other people might take that forsomething else and you know make
it because if we don't realizehow many people out there in the
world are actually watching us.

SPEAKER_01 (43:56):
Oh, yeah.
You know, we might be the onlyBible they ever read.

SPEAKER_02 (43:59):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (44:00):
Absolutely.
And I had an old pastor who usedto say, remember who you are and
remember who you represent.

SPEAKER_00 (44:08):
Yep.

SPEAKER_01 (44:10):
Yep, like an ambassador.
And not only that, when we speakthose, and I'm catch myself
doing it, you know, my worry,what if this, what if that, but
I try to cut back on thatbecause I don't want to give
Satan that foothold.
No.

SPEAKER_03 (44:25):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (44:26):
No, that's what I'm saying.
Well, yeah, and you don't wantto speak something in the way.
You don't want to label it.
Yeah.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.

unknown (44:31):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (44:33):
Yeah, Ephesians 429.
Do not let any unwholesome talkcome out of your mouths, but
only what is helpful forbuilding others up according to
their needs, that may benefitthose who listen.
And do not grieve the HolySpirit of God with whom you were
sealed for the day ofredemption.
Get rid of all bitterness, rageand anger, brawling and slander,

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along with every form of malice.
Be kind and compassionate to oneanother, forgiving each other,
just as in Christ God forgaveyou.
Again, it's you know, the morenegative that you are, the more
that you are willing to benegative to others, I think it
comes right back.
I think it comes right back onyou.

SPEAKER_03 (45:16):
Oh, yeah.
I hope the even when you're inthe right.
Yeah.
I hope the right people arelistening right now.
Because I don't know.
I just think for such a time asthis, there's just and you know,
even in the future, maybe it'lljust resonate with other people.
As far as encouraging others, Ihad a couple tips and tricks.

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But just tell others that youcan actually see how God is
working through them, you know,and because I think a lot of
times people think, why am Ieven doing this?
Or, you know, everything's goingunnoticed, like unnoticed.
And it would be a lot easier ifI just went with my old ways.
And I think you know, just Ithink even just showing them

(46:03):
that you see that that change inthem, that is going to encourage
them just to keep pushingforward, you know.

SPEAKER_00 (46:10):
I mean, I suppose that's why you know a lot of
people they want to go on adiet, they want to get in shape.

SPEAKER_03 (46:16):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (46:17):
And it at first sounds like a great idea, but
then they're not really seeingany gain.
Yeah.
And then you decide to quitbecause you're not seeing it.
But sometimes all it takes issomebody to say, hey, I think
you're getting really good.
Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 (46:28):
Yeah.
And you know, I I actually meantto say that to someone on
Sunday.
It wasn't anyone here, but Iknow that she kind of struggles
sometimes with how the way shelooks, and like we've talked
about it.
And I went home later thatevening, I'm like, dang it, why
didn't I tell her?
Because I do know that shestruggles with that and like has
for years.
And I'm like, and I actuallythought, like, as soon as I saw

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him, like, hey, you know, but Ididn't think to say it then and
there.

SPEAKER_01 (46:55):
And so yeah, but but I think too, our children, we
need to speak encouraging.
Yes.
Of our children.
Yes.
There's so much negativity, somuch pressures that are put on
them in the schools, and notnecessarily what you know, what
the school systems, you know,but are they wearing those name
brand clothes?
Are they that?

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And yep.

SPEAKER_00 (47:16):
Yep.
Got it.
Yeah.
Whatever's the hot ticket onYouTube or TikTok, or they gotta
have it.
Yeah.
They don't have it, they don'tfeel like they're in.

SPEAKER_03 (47:25):
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (47:27):
Yeah.
I got Colossians 4-5.
Be wise in the way you acttoward outsiders, make the most
of every opportunity.
Let your conversation be alwaysfull of grace, seasoned with
salt, so that you may know howto answer everyone.

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So think about what you're goingto say before you say it.
Make sure that it is somethingthat's actually going to be
useful to people, not justsomething that is going to like
I said, it's easy to try to makeyourself feel good in in front
of others in a negative way.
And we're all we're all guiltyof that.

SPEAKER_03 (48:05):
But yeah, because you want to be heard, you want
to be seen, and but yeah.
Yeah.
And there's nothing wrong withthat.
But when you're when that startsto become your identity, and you
know, when people start tothink, hey, when they think your
name, then they're like, Oh, Idon't want to hang out with her
all she, you know, she's sonegative.

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And then honestly, that brushesoff on other people.
It does, it truly does.

SPEAKER_01 (48:31):
Well, being working in an office environment, you
probably know all it takes isone person to come in with a
negative attitude, and beforeyou know, the trickle-down
effect has come.

SPEAKER_03 (48:40):
Yep, yep.
I actually just bought a uh agoose, you know, like the little
porch geese.
I bought one for my desk.
It's like six and a half inches.
I'm like, this is gonna brightenmy day.
It'll be a conversation starter,like it'll just kind of
encourage me throughout the day,if anything.
And like, I think all thoseteenagers that come in to get

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their braces, they're gonna geta kick out of it.
And I'm gonna be changing hisoutfits.

SPEAKER_04 (49:05):
And you have way too much time on your hands.

SPEAKER_03 (49:11):
No, I don't.
I'm just trying to make my day alittle brighter.
I'm trying to encourage myself.

SPEAKER_00 (49:17):
Where do you buy such outfits?

SPEAKER_03 (49:18):
At the store, Amazon, but I actually got it
off of Timu.
Yeah, Timu was a little cheaper.
But the outfit that I bought wasfor Halloween and it makes him
look like a ghost.
I just think you could have gota Hankin, didn't you?
Well, it's a sheet, but it'salso you know what though?

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It's it makes him look like a apumpkin and a ghost now that I
think about it, because it's gota pumpkin face, but it's got
like a sheet ghost or a sheet.
I don't know.
For yeah.
Never mind.

SPEAKER_00 (49:54):
This makes me think of like weird kids with you
know, you had Barbie anddifferent things or G.I.
Joe's, and once you bought thefigure, then they'd have the
little blister pack of outfitsexcessively.
Yeah, that you could buy forthem.

SPEAKER_01 (50:06):
Yeah, about the it's it's just a grown-up way of
still playing Barbie.
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (50:10):
Yep.
I was so mad though.
I I meant to bring it Tuesdaywhen I worked, and then I forgot
it.
And I told Chase, because when Iopened it, Cooper was up as soon
as I took that thing out of thebox.
He was like, like he wanted it.
And I told Chase, I'm like, dangit, I forgot my goose.
He's like, ah, it's Cooper'snow.
I'm like, oh no, it's not.

(50:31):
It's cute though.

SPEAKER_04 (50:32):
Aye, as long as you get enjoyment.

SPEAKER_03 (50:35):
You know what?
I've got a picture, I'll showyou guys.
Oh, right.
All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (50:39):
Too bad we don't have a camera here.
I know to see your picture.
Does it have his ghost house fiton?

SPEAKER_03 (50:44):
He does.

SPEAKER_00 (50:46):
Wow.

SPEAKER_01 (50:48):
Oh, how cute.

SPEAKER_04 (50:51):
I told you, you could you could have bought a
big hanky and magic marker andyeah, magic marker.
It probably only cost you 99cents.

SPEAKER_03 (51:01):
I really I if I was thinking they had like a cute
hoodie with a backpack, I'mlike, that would have been
perfect for back to school, youknow.

SPEAKER_04 (51:08):
But well, you have next year.

SPEAKER_03 (51:10):
I yeah, if I'm still there.
Uh well, you put that goat.

SPEAKER_00 (51:15):
You gotta dress him as a turkey.

SPEAKER_03 (51:17):
I know, I know, I know.
I already need the get on theball.
Maybe I'll make that one.
Yeah.
Like out of feathers.
Mm-hmm.
You can help me, Roger.

SPEAKER_00 (51:26):
Okay.
See what you've done?
Just gave yourself one moreproject.

SPEAKER_03 (51:30):
It's Roger's fault.
You mean a glue?

SPEAKER_00 (51:32):
Yep.
What is that?
Uh Peacock?
No, it's a turkey.
Glue gun?
Hey, no problem.

SPEAKER_03 (51:41):
That's all you need.

SPEAKER_04 (51:42):
Glue gun and some feathers.
You're gonna have to give up oneof your boas.

SPEAKER_00 (51:52):
I got 2 Timothy 215.
Do your best to present yourselfto God as one approved, a
workman who does not need to beashamed and who correctly
handles the word of truth.
Avoid godless chatter, becausethose who indulge in it will
become more and more ungodly.
Their teaching will spread likegangrene.

(52:17):
I wonder if that's the only timein the Bible that the word
gangrene is in there.

SPEAKER_03 (52:21):
What if that what translation do you have?

SPEAKER_00 (52:26):
This New International Version.

SPEAKER_03 (52:31):
Oh, the NIV.
Okay.
I like that scripture.

SPEAKER_00 (52:38):
What was that?
What was that?
Second Timothy 2 15.
Fifteen through 17.

SPEAKER_03 (52:52):
You gonna read it for us, Roger?
Oh yeah, yours would bedifferent.

SPEAKER_04 (52:59):
Yeah, yeah.
I'm always different.

SPEAKER_03 (53:01):
This is the NIV too.
Twelve ten.

SPEAKER_00 (53:13):
Second Timothy.
Two fifteen through seventeen.

SPEAKER_04 (53:27):
Two fifteen to seventeen.
Study to show thyself approvedunto God, a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed, rightlydivided in the word of truth.
But shun profane yeah, profaneand vain babbling.

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For they will increase unto moreungodliness, and their words
will eat eat as doth.
And canker canker.
They get that they get somemedical terms in here.

(54:12):
In other words, it's a localBible.
Yeah, in other words, it'sinfected.

SPEAKER_03 (54:17):
Seriously, though, that's a good way of looking at
it.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (54:20):
Well you got.

SPEAKER_01 (54:23):
I've got the same as you.
Same as me?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (54:25):
What you got?

SPEAKER_01 (54:26):
Oh, I haven't even turned it.
Listen.
What is it?

SPEAKER_00 (54:30):
Second Timothy 215 through 17.

SPEAKER_03 (54:34):
I'm gonna look up like the messages, like that
one.
Yeah.
And see what that translationis.

SPEAKER_01 (54:40):
Two fifteen.
Work hard so you can presentyourself to God and receive his
approval.
Be a good worker, one who doesnot need to be ashamed and who
correctly explains the word oftruth.
Avoid worthless, foolish talkthat only leads to more godless
behavior.
This kind of talk spreads likecancer.

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As in the case of the Hymeneusand the Philetus?
Philidus.

SPEAKER_04 (55:09):
Yeah, what is in my book too.

SPEAKER_01 (55:10):
They have left the path of truth, claiming that the
resurrection of the dead hasalready occurred in this way.
They have turned some peopleaway from thy faith.

SPEAKER_00 (55:20):
Cancer, okay.

SPEAKER_03 (55:22):
This says the message, it's da da da da
basically everything that yousaid.
But then it says words are notmere words, you know.
If they're backed by a godlylife, they accumulate as poison
in the soul.

SPEAKER_00 (55:48):
Yeah.
Take it from there.
All right, and I'm gonna closewith this one.
James three.
Sorry, three, nine.
With the tongue we praise ourLord and our Father, and with it
we curse men who have been madein God's likeness.

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Out of the same mouth comepraise and cursing.
My brothers, this should not be.
Can both fresh water and saltwater flow from the same spring?
My brothers, can a fig tree bearolives or a grapevine bear figs?
Neither can a salt springproduce fresh water.
So, yeah.

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You have to decide if you'regonna be salt water or
freshwater.
A fish cannot live in both.
They're one or the other.
Which one are you gonna be?
Which one you gonna live by?

SPEAKER_03 (56:41):
Yeah.
You know what though?
There is a there's a place onLake Erie.
It's one of the only ones leftin America that it's a salt
mine?
No.
I'm trying to think.
It's not a pond, like areservoir.
Okay, but it's where freshwaterwell that wouldn't make sense

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because the Great Lakes isfreshwater.
I don't know where that wasthen, but it said it was where
freshwater and saltwater meetsaltwater meet, but that
wouldn't be up in Lake Erie.
I don't know where that was.

SPEAKER_04 (57:20):
Zambezi.

SPEAKER_03 (57:21):
Yeah.
But it was very like you can'tdo anything around there because
you basically can just look andnot touch because it's like just
a spot that and there's stilllike living creatures there, and
that I think that's kind of whythey're like, hey, you know,
we're only gonna let you guysobserve this location because we

(57:42):
don't really understand how allthese things are living
together.
Yeah, you know.
I can't remember where that wasthough, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (57:50):
Interesting.

SPEAKER_03 (57:54):
Any words of wisdom?

SPEAKER_00 (57:57):
Parting parting encouragement.

SPEAKER_03 (58:00):
Encouragement.

SPEAKER_00 (58:03):
Read the word, love God and your neighbor.
Watch what comes out of yourmouth.
Yeah.
Try to be more positive.

SPEAKER_03 (58:09):
Yeah.
Bite your tongue.

SPEAKER_00 (58:11):
Fellowship.

SPEAKER_04 (58:12):
If I did that, I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to
talk.
I'd bite it off.

SPEAKER_01 (58:18):
Fellowship is a big one because of the encouragement
that we can give the women.
Strength and numbers.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Iron sharpens iron.

SPEAKER_03 (58:30):
Yeah.
I don't know whose turn it is topray.

SPEAKER_04 (58:33):
I'll pray.
I pray.

SPEAKER_03 (58:35):
Wow.
Let me get a scoin if I canremember.
Hit this little button here.

SPEAKER_04 (58:41):
I don't.
There it goes.
Oh Heavenly Father, we do thankyou, Lord, for this day.
Lord, we just ask that you wouldjust take and be with those that
are listening, Lord.
Just encourage them, Lord, to todo better in their lives, Lord.
Yes.
Encourage each one of us, Lord,to do better in our lives, Lord,
and to to glorify you better,Lord, than we do, Lord.

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We just thank you for thisprivilege, Lord, of of being
here and and to just tobroadcasting your word out
through the through the throughthe airways.
Yes.
Pretty much.
And we just thank you and praiseyou for all that you've done for
us, Lord.
We just ask you to just take andwatch over us and give us peace
and understanding, Lord, of yourword.

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And we just thank you and praiseyou.
We give you all the glory.
And we ask us all in Jesus' mostprecious name.
Amen.

SPEAKER_03 (59:30):
Amen.